--- title: When they had finished Zobeida rose from her seat, and, taking Amina… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When they had finished Zobeida rose from her seat, and, taking Amina by the hand, she said to her, "My sister, our friends will excuse us if we seem to forget their presence and fulfil our nightly task." Who acts: Calenders, finished Zobeida, seat, friends. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Calenders, finished Zobeida, seat, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:6:84 # text = When they had finished Zobeida rose from her seat, and, taking Amina by the hand, she said to her, "My sister, our friends will excuse us if we seem to forget their presence and fulfil our nightly task." 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 Zobeida Zobeida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 14 Amina Amina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 32 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 fulfil fulfil VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 42 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 nightly nightly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | Calenders *= calender* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **rise** | past | finished Zobeida | | | Giafar's seat | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **take** | gerund | finished Zobeida *not said here* | | Amina | | | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument amina=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | seat | | Giafar | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 5 | **excuse** *in a quote* | future | our friends | us | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 6 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **forget** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | Calenders's presence | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | present | we *not said here* | our nightly task | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **task** *in a quote* | | our | | | | | | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/85/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/)